CVE-2016-6185

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6185
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6185.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6185
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-08-02T14:59:02.943Z
Modified
2026-05-28T04:03:16.788249794Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader in Perl does not properly locate .so files when called in a string eval, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse library under the current working directory.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "17.10"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "22"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "23"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "24"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "11.3"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "oracle:solaris"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/perl/perl5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/perl/perl5
Events
Introduced
7c499b7fd47e7232467f4cb7ffd590dc0edf2168
Fixed
443bd156a6baaf7a8fe6b6b05fcf6c4178140ed2
Introduced
2c5484a6fb758fd9bd9f56d504186972d12dd338
Fixed
c137098022dcef5e7ea32608e5299276efea6457
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "5.23.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "5.24.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "5.25.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "5.25.3"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

if-0.*
if-0.0605
v5.*
v5.23.0
v5.23.1
v5.23.2
v5.23.3
v5.23.4
v5.23.6
v5.23.7
v5.24.0
v5.24.0-RC1
v5.24.0-RC2
v5.24.0-RC3
v5.24.0-RC4
v5.24.0-RC5
v5.24.1-RC1
v5.24.1-RC2
v5.24.1-RC3
v5.24.1-RC4
v5.24.1-RC5
v5.25.0
v5.25.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6185.json"